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Oh Kristy thank you, thank you, thank you. I love my scrumptiously pretty tin. It’s the perfect size for the dolly pegs in my little laundry room. You are an angel. I’m sorry I’ve been such a rubbish friend lately. Hope you…
“I USED to know a home, very plain, very simply furnished, very strenuous in its endeavors, and lofty in its ideals, which for abounding cheerfulness surpassed the common abodes of men and women. Looking back I know that there was a struggle…
Eat avocado and black pepper speckled cream cheese on grainy seedy toast and drink peppermint tea. Plant sweetcorn and marigolds and beans. Write down five reasons to be grateful and pin to bathroom mirror. Scan vintage flash cards. Buy pale green ink…
Oh yes. God forbid I should have too much fun. Trouble seems to follow me round these days… So Friday, we went to Debbie and Andrew’s wedding, where the bride was glowing, and I swear couldn’t have looked happier. The wedding was…
When I am not being a Vintage HouseKeeper I am busy being a teenybopper. Which would explain why I found myself queuing up behind a hoard of little girls in pink furry bunny rabbit ears as we waited a lifetime to see…
Alongside the fripperies of Vintage Housekeeping, there is, to me at least, a deep rooted ambition to make life simpler: to clear enough space in my mind to make enjoying the daily grind at least a possibility. All of us have our…
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How cute! My very southern grandmother refused to allow us to hang men and women's underwear on the clothesline at the same time. Had to do men's first and then the women's. She said "the neighbors will talk." Jeepers, have you ever heard of something so strange and funny?
Well, I have to admit to hanging undies sandwiched in between large, white tea towels. Or is that too much information?!?! LOL The sad thing about me is we have a 6' wooden fence all around our backyard, so who's gonna see? Well, my boys!!!
I say go with it – be brazen! Hang them out there in all their glory! Generally as I prefer underwear that are best described as harvest festivals (because all is safely gathered in) I'd have to be careful. If I hung my bra's on the line, I'd come out to collect them and find two tramps swinging in them. I think I'll leave them on the maiden indoors…..! I do love her dress, it really matches your background, she must have known!
I say go with it – be brazen! Hang them out there in all their glory! Generally as I prefer underwear that are best described as harvest festivals (because all is safely gathered in) I'd have to be careful. If I hung my bra's on the line, I'd come out to collect them and find two tramps swinging in them. I think I'll leave them on the maiden indoors…..! I do love her dress, it really matches your background, she must have known!
I am an expat living in the US – I met another english woman who had just moved into town and who was amazed that no one hangs their wash – when she indulged in the lost art her neighbours complained – one saying that the sight of her underwear was disturbing to their 13 year old son ! Some housing estates here forbid washing lines !
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How cute! My very southern grandmother refused to allow us to hang men and women's underwear on the clothesline at the same time. Had to do men's first and then the women's. She said "the neighbors will talk." Jeepers, have you ever heard of something so strange and funny?
Well, I have to admit to hanging undies sandwiched in between large, white tea towels. Or is that too much information?!?! LOL
The sad thing about me is we have a 6' wooden fence all around our backyard, so who's gonna see? Well, my boys!!!
I say go with it – be brazen! Hang them out there in all their glory! Generally as I prefer underwear that are best described as harvest festivals (because all is safely gathered in) I'd have to be careful. If I hung my bra's on the line, I'd come out to collect them and find two tramps swinging in them. I think I'll leave them on the maiden indoors…..! I do love her dress, it really matches your background, she must have known!
I say go with it – be brazen! Hang them out there in all their glory! Generally as I prefer underwear that are best described as harvest festivals (because all is safely gathered in) I'd have to be careful. If I hung my bra's on the line, I'd come out to collect them and find two tramps swinging in them. I think I'll leave them on the maiden indoors…..! I do love her dress, it really matches your background, she must have known!
hahaha Sarah, Harvest festivals, (all is safely gathered in!!) great image…
What a cute washing line. And I love her spotted skirt.
What a cute washing line. And I love her spotted skirt.
I am an expat living in the US – I met another english woman who had just moved into town and who was amazed that no one hangs their wash – when she indulged in the lost art her neighbours complained – one saying that the sight of her underwear was disturbing to their 13 year old son ! Some housing estates here forbid washing lines !